today is sadly our last full day in chiang rai everything we wanted to see and do
here was split pretty evenly into things we wanted to see and food related experiences
so yesterday we went and saw all the awesome temples that are around here and the sites of
attraction but today we wanted to explore the town again but this time through our stomachs
super excited because we haven't really done a food tour to explore a city before but there is
a lot of things we want to try here there's a cafe and then there's a northern thai specialty that
we have been dying to try since we've gotten to thailand and we finally get to have it today but
first following masses of really good reviews of this hotel
they do have an included breakfast which seems to change daily so we're gonna start right here
so each day without breakfast we get a fresh juice as well yesterday's was
pineapple and ginger and today it's pineapple and carrot and it is delicious
how good does that look scrambled eggs and bacon heaps of different types of fruits lots of
pineapples strawberries the colors are just insane i'm so excited to get this so that's two mornings
now that this breakfast has been 10 out of 10. the eggs are perfectly cooked the bacon on top today
was a nice little surprise but the fruit the fruit is the real winner i think of the breakfast it's
also fresh and flavorful the mango is my favorite that's why i leave it to last so yesterday we
stumbled across this really cool cafe but it happened to be shut when we were there so we're
heading back there now for our second morning coffee i think it'll be pretty obvious why we
want to go there when we arrive but let's just say we're going to have some little friends with us
in case you haven't guessed it so far we're in a cat cafe we've just ordered some iced maca lattes
and we get to hang out with all these cute cats and they've got smushed faces
this one keeps sneezing and giving a little slop bubble
they've got all of their beds they've got like a little hideaway holes and
food all the good things that they can jump on i don't really like cats that much it's probably not
the right place to say that i just don't know how to read them very well so it always scares me when
they make a quick movement because i don't know if they're going to scratch me but they're so cute
arguably one of the best copies we've had so far
i did not expect to like this as much as that yeah we're never contemplating buying another
drink so we can stay a little bit longer yeah we are almost out the coffee is amazing so even
that by itself we've been here for an hour jesus i was going to say like maybe 25 minutes yeah
it's so much fun they're all just doing whatever they want to do wearing leggings was probably a
bad idea because they're covered in cat hair now but worth it i really didn't expect much
and i never expected to go to a cat cafe in chiang rai but a great experience yeah
i'm gonna have a walk past highly recommend yeah come here if you do come to chiang mai i love it
that was great um now we're off to get some lunch and try the much anticipated noodle disc
from northern thailand called khao soi i'm so excited today's been great yeah
oh
so come to what looks like this super local spot we are basically the only tourists in here to get
khao soi which we've wanted to try for such a long time we've heard that you must wash it down with
a milk tea this is like so sweet i think it's got condensed milk in it that's why it's super sweet
khao soi is like the northern thai specialty dish it's got noodles and fried noodles
chicken like creamy rich kind of spicy broth i read a blog online that said it's
exotic without being weird i'm excited to try it it looks like you make up a little
dish on the spoon and then you eat that my chopstick skills leave something to be desired
i understand what i mean by exotic but not weird it's like this whole new flavor but it
has similarities to like chicken noodle soup to start with and then like a yellow curry maybe
but it's really good do you want to try something
like that
we weren't too sure about it so we just got one bowl to share
in the steak we should have got a bowl each i think this is my favorite thing so far
we've been in thailand wow really good but my tip is get a bowl each
so that place was amazing i love that it was super local and that was the only people there
we're definitely going to get khao soi again but now we've got a few hours to
kill until we head out for dinner we made it to dinner we treated ourselves to a beer
tonight and we are copying our friends and we've got to kind of cook yourself barbecue
they said it was one of the best things that they've eaten when they've been in thailand
don't really know what we're doing or if anything's cooked
to be completely honest but it looks good
it's really good i'm gonna switch to this sauce on this one as well
that was good it was such a good day i love seeing a city through our stomachs yeah the
best part i think the cat cafe was probably one of the best yeah i think that's my favorite and
then probably cow soy i can't wait to have it oh castle is delicious like that was really nice
that experience there and cooking it was really cool and it's such a fun experience but tomorrow
unfortunately we leave beautiful chiang rai to head for chiang mai still in the north which is
nice all right can wonder back home get to bed and then get up and get on the bus great day good day